A cookie is a harmless <\/strong>small text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The purpose of a cookie is that is allows the website to be able to remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Although most people do not know it, cookies have been used for 20 years, since the first World Wide Web browsers appeared<\/p>\n It is not a virus, nor a Trojan, worm, spam, or spyware, and it does not open pop-up windows.<\/p>\n Cookies<\/em> do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The information they store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalisation of content, etc. The information they store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalisation of content, etc.<\/p>\n The web server does not see you as a person but rather focuses on your web browser. In fact, if you regularly surf with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same web with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realise that you are the same person because it is focusing on the browser, not the person.<\/p>\n Proprietary cookies <\/em>are those generated by the page you are visiting and third-party cookies<\/em> are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.<\/p>\n To understand the effects of disabling the cookies, here are a few examples:<\/p>\n Yes. Not only deleted, also blocked, in general or in a particular way for a specific domain.<\/p>\n To delete cookies from a website you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with the relevant domain and proceed remove them.<\/p>\n Here is how to access a specific cookie from a Chrome<\/strong> browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on your browser version:<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the Internet Explorer<\/strong>\u00a0browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the Firefox<\/strong> browser, follow these steps (these may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the Safari for OSX<\/strong>\u00a0browser, follow these steps (these may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the Safari for iOS<\/strong>\u00a0browser, follow these steps (these may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the browser for Android <\/strong>devices, follow these steps (these may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookies\u00a0settings of the browser for Windows Phone <\/strong>devices, follow these steps (these may vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n What is a cookie? A cookie is a harmless small text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The purpose of a cookie is that is allows the website to be able to remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Although most people do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is not a cookie?<\/h2>\n
What information does a cookie store?<\/h2>\n
What types of cookies are there?<\/h2>\n
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What are proprietary cookies\u00a0and third-party cookies?<\/h2>\n
What happens if i disable the cookies?<\/h2>\n
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Can cookies be deleted?<\/h2>\n
Configuration of cookies\u00a0for the most popular browsers<\/h2>\n
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